A.R.T. Easter Seals UCP Program at Art Works

Yesterday Easter Seals UCP completed the training for A.R.T. The Trackers worked with the Artists and some even completed their paintings.

What’s A.R.T ? It’s a program where physically challenged folks use technology to communicate to someone who has been trained to put their ideas down on canvas or other mediums. Scroll down to read about this amazing story and program.

For those of us who participated in the training or just watched the process and the interaction, it was a feel good day! At the end of the day, Sarah Hutchenson loaded up the materials and put them in A.R.T’s new studio 150 at Art Works. And in the next week or so, the studio will be organized and ready for the making of more art.

Some of the paintings completed this week will be on exhibit in the Skylight Gallery on FOURTH FRIDAY (January 28th) and the exhibit continues through February 20, 2011.

ABOUT A.R.T.In his book Flying Colors, Tim Lefen tells about his introduction 10 years ago to a group of severely challenged students. None of them could walk and all lacked the use of their hands. Only one of them could talk. Lefen was facing the gradual loss of his eyesight and knowing the power of art, set out to enable the students to paint despite their physical difficulties. He developed the A.R. T. (Artistic Realization Technologies) program that makes use of technologies (computers, laser pointers and more) as instruments with which the students (aka artists) use to instruct trained assistants (aka trackers) to be their arms and hands in painting, photographing and sculpting.

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